This text offers a sweeping view of urban religion in response to the transformations of de-industrialized large cities. Focusing on Chicago, it explores the ways in which religious organizations both reflect and contribute to changes in American pluralism.
The question of women in the armed services is hotly debated. Exploring the perspectives of feminist antimilitarists and feminist soldiers, this text situates the combat controversy in the context of US political change and analyzes women's inclusion in the armed forces.
The question of women in the armed services is hotly debated. Exploring the perspectives of feminist antimilitarists and feminist soldiers, this text situates the combat controversy in the context of US political change and analyzes women's inclusion in the armed forces.
African Americans and the Integration of the National Football League
In American football, seven out of ten players are black, but few are fully aware of the struggle to achieve equal rights. This text examines how sports laid a foundation for social change by integrating black and white athletes in the National Football League.
The Christian Right's Fight to Redefine America's Public Schools
Taking the novel approach of framing the Christian Right as a revitalization movement, this book shows how it seeks to effect cultural transformation in order to bring public education - and our society more generally - in line with its worldview. It also assesses the religious viability of the Christian Right as a social movement.
Are Japanese women happy with their roles, or are they frustrated with the limitations of their traditional arrangement? This book explores the many facets of Japanese women's lives, looking at education, marriage, child rearing, the workplace and the political arena.
This collection contains twenty-seven new essays on American paranoia drawn from a range of disciplines, including American studies, film studies, history, literature, religious studies, and sociology. It's arranged by topic and largely in chronological order, explore manifestations of fear throughout the history of the United States. Approaching ......
This collection contains twenty-seven new essays on American paranoia drawn from a range of disciplines, including American studies, film studies, history, literature, religious studies, and sociology. It's arranged by topic and largely in chronological order, explore manifestations of fear throughout the history of the United States. Approaching ......
Theoretical Issues in Twentieth-Century Black Literature
'It is a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's selfthrough the eyes of others.' For Adell, W. E. B. Du Bois's famous articulation of the 'twoness' ofblack Americans is the key to understanding the 'double bind' which afflicts contemporaryAfrican-American literary theory. . . . [The book] demands and ......
